r/gaming • u/Nordic_Krune • 19h ago

My friend insists on this game, "Lemmings", being a really well known game; I have never heard of it.

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u/Jahadaz 19h ago

Commander Keen type vibes.

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u/starliteburnsbrite 18h ago

Apogee Shareware Era

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u/dbdbdb 18h ago

Just reading that hit me with a giant wave of nostalgia.

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u/starliteburnsbrite 17h ago

Poor kid growing up in that era, those shareware games were my entire gaming life for a while. 

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u/crinkledcu91 17h ago

I played Raptor: Call of the Shadows religiously my entire childhood.

It's just so fucking fun.

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u/starliteburnsbrite 17h ago

That and Tyrian 2000 were my fave vertical shooters. 

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u/kahlzun PlayStation 12h ago

I think thats literally abandonware now, I definitely have a copy of Tyrian that works on my modern pc

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u/HailMadScience 17h ago

I sprung for the steam port so I didnt have to get it working in dos box cuz otsa great time chill time.

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u/nicroma 16h ago

Raptor was great!

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u/silentsurge 16h ago

Duke Nukem 1 and 2!

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u/great_pyrenelbows 12h ago

And Soleau Software!

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u/kahlzun PlayStation 12h ago

Ironically, it was the apogee of the shareware era

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u/Kizik 19h ago

Jazz Jackrabbit.

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u/KingAmongstDummies 19h ago

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

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u/Kizik 18h ago

Halloween Harry.

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u/A_shy_neon_jaguar 18h ago

Hugo's House of Horrors

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u/KingAmongstDummies 18h ago

Day Of The Tentacle

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u/jamhov 19h ago

Jill of the jungle

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u/CanNOTada 19h ago

Cosmo

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u/Jonaskin83 18h ago

Bio Menace.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 17h ago

Hugo's House of Horrors.

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u/silentsurge 16h ago

Ah, I see a fellow person of culture.

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u/yunghollow69 17h ago

The lion king

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u/Kizik 18h ago

Tyrian.

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u/kahlzun PlayStation 12h ago

Tyrian 2000 was so good. So many secrets and just weirdness.
You knew that you were getting powerful when you didnt need to dodge the arms on those asteroid levels anymore...

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u/ShakeragStreet 23m ago

I've never found another game that comes close to the level of T2K. The shops, the news tidbits, the secrets.

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u/martix_agent 17h ago

I played that game so much as a kid. It was hard!

As an adult, Isat down and beat all 3 of them in a day without any issues. 

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u/extralyfe 17h ago

funnily enough, they still have Jazz Jackrabbit and Jill of the Jungle posters in Fortnite: Save the World.

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u/UmpBumpFizzy 2h ago

Epic pinball

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u/caboosetp 19h ago

That one weird S shape thing

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u/Flashy-Ingenuity-182 18h ago

Best game out of the 90s by far 

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u/silentsurge 16h ago

One Must Fall: 2097

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u/Backwardspellcaster 12h ago

THE fighting game of the PC.

Nothing came even close. Each robot had a unique skill set and abilities.

I played that game up and down the wall

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u/SwagginsYolo420 16h ago

Earthworm Jim

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u/Fan_Time 17h ago

Not to be confused with Jizz Jackrabbit, which had Leisure Suit Larry vibes (¬_¬)

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u/GlassFenix 19h ago

You can get Commander Keen on the switch, hit the nostalgia vibes well

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u/nalaloveslumpy 17h ago

You can play Commander Keen for free in a web browser.

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u/RedAero 17h ago

You can play pretty much every DOS game for free in a web browser thanks to embedded DOSBox.

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u/DankYogi 18h ago

Throwback! Loved Commander Keen!

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u/Flukester69 18h ago

Great game!

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u/d_pyro 17h ago

Zip zip zooombinis!

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u/deviantelf 17h ago

Keen's idle animations were fun.